A Christmas Sermon
Robert Louis Stevenson
A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson written while he convalesced from a lung ailment at Lake Sarnac in the winter of 1887. In the short text ...
A Footnote History
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is an 1892 historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevenson describing the contemporary Sa...
Essays On The Art of Writing
A collection of essays about writing: "On some technical elements of style in literature", "The morality of the profession of letters", "Books which h...
Familiar Studies of Men
Familiar Studies of Men and Books, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1882), is a collection of essays, remarkable for a certain youthful originality and dari...
In the South Seas
The literary world was shocked when in 1890, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently in Samo...
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
The wild Cevennes region of France forms the backdrop for the pioneering travelogue 'Travels with a Donkey, ' written by a young Robert Louis Stevenso...
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A mysterious door-way, an incident of ferocious violence, a respectable and popular scientist, well-known for his enjoyable dinner parties who suddenl...
Ballads
The collection of poems presents beautiful ballads, a couple of which are based on actual folk tales of Scotland, while others were conjectured by the...
Moral Emblems
The Eagle seeks its daily bread. How aptly fact to fact replies: Heroes and eagles, hills and skies. Ye who contemn the fatted slave Look on this embl...
New Poems
During his lifetime Stevenson published A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) and its predecessors Penny Whistles, Underwoods (1887) and Ballads (1890). T...
Father Damien an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr Hyde
Father Damien (Damien de Veuster, 1840-1889) was a Roman Catholic missionary from Belgium. He went to the leper settlement at Molokai in 1873, where h...
Vailima Prayers
Vailima Prayers and Sabbath Morn is a book written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all t...
Fables
Fables Contents “The Persons of the Tale” “The Devil and the Innkeeper” “The Penitent” “The Yellow Paint” “The House of Eld” “The Four Reformers” “The...
Island Nights Entertainments
This is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1893. It would prove to contain some of his final completed work b...
New Arabian Nights
New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his best work ...
Contes de Noel
Alphonse Daudet
Anatole Le Braz
Camille Lemonnier
Charles Dickens
François Coppée
Des contes de Noël signés par de grands auteurs du 19ème siècle tel que : Guy de Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, Charles Dickens, François Coppée, Camill...